Double StarThe story revolves around Lawrence Smith, also known as "Lorenzo the Great", a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war. |
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... seemed most unlikely that I could be connected with the affair even if it were discovered - fortunately a gentleman always wears gloves , and I had had mine off only to put on make - up and later during that ghastly house cleaning ...
... seemed most unlikely that I could be connected with the affair even if it were discovered - fortunately a gentleman always wears gloves , and I had had mine off only to put on make - up and later during that ghastly house cleaning ...
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... seemed a logical certainty . Bonforte had lived through at least three assassination attempts - or so the news reports would have us believe . At least two of his escapes had seemed almost miraculous . Suppose they were not miraculous ...
... seemed a logical certainty . Bonforte had lived through at least three assassination attempts - or so the news reports would have us believe . At least two of his escapes had seemed almost miraculous . Suppose they were not miraculous ...
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... seemed to have been occupied continuously for at least a week , a pot of coffee was still hot - and wrapped in a towel on a shelf was an old - fashioned removable denture which Clifton identified as belonging to Bonforte . But Bon ...
... seemed to have been occupied continuously for at least a week , a pot of coffee was still hot - and wrapped in a towel on a shelf was an old - fashioned removable denture which Clifton identified as belonging to Bonforte . But Bon ...
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